ESPN continues self-censoring for LeBron…
ESPN deletes story one reporter wrote about “wild” LeBron Vegas party.
MITCH BLATT
I reported last week on how ESPN had a record of cowtowing to LeBron James.
As noted:
[ESPN writer Tom] Friend didn’t get his facts wrong but LeBron felt he portrayed his mother, Gloria, in an unfavorable light. From that day forward, LeBron put The Magazine [...]
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How many titles can the Heat win? Let’s start with just trying to win one.
The typical ESPN headline is as follows: “Heat is On: Miami has its Dream Team. How many titles will it capture?”
Considering that only one of the players has a title so far and that LeBron completely flopped in last year’s playoffs, is it just a little too soon to be asking “How many?”
It reminds [...]
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Mel Kiper explodes on Todd McShay
Todd McShay is ESPN’s new young draft expert, and Mel Kiper is starting to let his disdain towards the young guy be felt. During the preview for the draft Thursday night, Kiper launched into McShay for saying that Jimmy Clausen would be undervalued and passed up:
As I said on Twitter, “When you are yelling [...]
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A comparison of ESPN.com and SI.com headlines
All the same things, but ESPN uses more exciting verbiage.
MITCH BLATT
While browsing ESPN and SI.com this morning, I noticed ESPN and SI had the same topics for almost all their headlines but ESPN’s headlines were framed in a much more exciting manner.
For example, how do the two sites headline a story about Dwight Freeney tearing [...]
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Brett Favre coverage strangely missing from ESPN.com
MITCH BLATT
Brett Favre just lost, so you would think that ESPN would go into overdrive with coverage of Brett Favre crying, speculation about whether he would retire, interviews with teammates about whether they think he’s gonna retire and the like.
On their website, they don’t have any of that up. They have an NBA story [...]
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How is Shaun King an analyst?
Former Bucs quarterback thinks that the Eagles are the best team in the NFC
SCOTT JACOBS
We’ve come to expect stupid comments from our sports analysts. We’ve come to expect controversial comments from our sportscasters. But it’s going to take some time before I get used to totally ludicrous claims. Shaun King, step [...]
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ESPN’s Useless Stat of the Day — Why the Cubs Won’t Win the World Series
The Cubs have the best record in the National League and the second best record in baseball. So why can’t you consider them a World Series contender?
Because of this useless stat, brought to you by ESPN:
The Cubs became the first team in the National League to win 60 games. The last time the [...]
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Hey, ESPN: Mike McColgan Says Boston is Titletown, USA…
ESPN is busy telling us who Titletown, USA is, and they even have profiled a few high school teams and Ivy League schools and stuff. While Los Angeles might be able to make an argument for Titletown, USA, I sadly agree with Mike McColgan, frontman for the Street Dogs, whom I interviewed yesterday that [...]
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